2O6 THE FORAGE AND FIBER CROPS IN AMERICA 



markably high proportion of digestible protein, but has not been 

 found adapted to any considerable portion of the United States, 



Hairy vetch taken at Cornell Station June 28. Vine in blown 

 One-fifth natural size 



although it has been grown somewhat in the New England 

 states and in Washington and Oregon. 



Winter vetch is likely to find a much wider adaptation in the 

 United States, although always as a secondary crop, and is the 

 species which will be described here. 



241. Description. Winter vetch is a winter annual with 

 vine-like, trailing, sparingly branched stems three to five, some- 

 times eight, feet long, bearing leaves with about eight pairs o-f 



